ggO HISTORY OF THt COMMITTEE ON S< II \< I AND TECHNOLOGY 



avoid a possible defeat on the floor, Tcaguc stated that he would 

 accept the Barrett amendment. Mosher reacted: 



We on our side of the aisle are extremely reluctant to accept this maneuver. 

 However, speaking at least for myself alone, I will yield to the wisdom of my chair- 

 man, and I personally am willing to accept the commitment of the gentleman from 

 Pennsylvania, but, I want it on the record, it is with considerable reluctance. 



TEAGUE WINS IN SPITE OF HIMSELF 



A remarkable thing then occurred. Representative Chalmers P. 

 Wylie (Republican of Ohio), who was also a member of the Banking 

 and Currency Committee, startled the House when he arose to say: 



I am a little surprised that the chairman of the Committee on Science and Astro- 

 nautics would yield so quickly and willingly. I had, of course, thought of the gentle- 

 man from Texas as a kind of tiger, and indeed he is affectionately nicknamed "Tiger," 

 but since he moved from the chairmanship of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs to 

 the Committee on Science and Astronautics, he has become a sort of timid tiger, it 

 seems to me. 



Smiling, Teague confessed that "occasionally one gives up a battle to 

 win a war, and this is not over by any means." He pledged that if the 

 provision did not show up in the Senate, then "in no way, shape or 

 form would I yield in conference." That wasn't enough for Wylie. 

 He said it would be silly to report the same language out in the housing 

 bill, with all that additional printing cost and waste of time and effort. 

 The upshot was that Barrett's amendment was shouted down and 

 Teague won in spite of himself. It was a further illustration of the gung- 

 ho support for solar energy. 



When the roll was called on final passage of the bill, the legislation 

 won by the crushing majority of 253 to 2. 



THE SENATE AND THE CHRISTMAS TREE 



When the Senate took up the solar heating and cooling bill, an 

 example of both its complexity and popularity was the fact that five 

 Senate committees each had a hand in considering the legislation. In 

 the Senate, a number of "Christmas tree" amendments were tacked 

 onto the bill. According to McCormack: 



We had trouble in the Senate. When we sent the solar heating and cooling bill 

 over there, a bunch of the people who had become solar advocates wanted to trim it 

 up by adding every conceivable concept to that bill. 



McCormack then recalled: 



I wrote a rather blunt letter to a whole bunch of them saying that if they would 

 recognize that this program was one that we could initiate now, a specific program, 

 that if they would kindly keep their cotton picking hands off it and pass it the way 

 we conceived it, I would immediately sponsor another bill which would be an omni- 



